Secure boot (I hate it)

I work as an IT admin for a corporate company. We have a WDS server we use to image our machines around the network.

I'd just like to say how i hate secure boot. The new machines we order come with windows 8 and secure boot enabled.

You cannot PXE boot to WDS with it enabled. First you have to go into the bios and disable it, then enable legacy boot. Furthermore you have to use a pin to disable secure boot.

Lastly we put graphics cards into the machine before we build them but it seems adding extra hardware with secure boot enabled causes the machines to just beep at you endlessly until you remove the hardware and disable secure boot.



What a PITA this is.

 

total nightmare, i know what you mean.
weve had sophos since computers were invented on our hospital network and never had any problem until the contract was up last year.
now every computer has gone onto mcafee antivirus with mccafee safe boot. and since the IT dept decided to time out all the computers at 7pm to save on electricity overnight they all have to be logged on first thing in the morning with safe boot. im the first one in at 8am and have the lovely job of logging in to 78 computers.

 

Secure boot is a UEFI setting. Safeboot is different, but i feel your pain on that one, it's a crap solution.